Industry Summary Articles

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• Selecting and deploying a product innovation platform is a sizable investment that if done correctly can have a significant impact on the company’s return on investment.
• Resilient, sustainable solutions consist of much more than apps, the underlying solution architecture and services must be flexible to run on hardware and technology stacks that will be available in the future while supporting easy app development and maintenance.
• The Aras platform's underlying architecture has stood the test of time, it performs, scales, and has enabled a wide variety of industrial applications with its low-code development environment.
• Available Aras...

This webinar will discuss how Indian automotive manufacturers are able to streamline the certification process with full traceability.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA, 3 December 2019—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces that its President & CEO, Peter Bilello, will take part in a webinar to discuss the challenges faced by the Indian automotive industry in certifying their vehicles against the Bharat Stage IV emission norms.

With one of the largest automobile markets in the world the Indian government has instituted a series of emissions standards designed to regulate the output of air pollutants from internal combustion...

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• China's PLM market continues to rapidly expand, exceeding US$2.35 billion in 2018, up 16.2% from 2017. While the global PLM market grew by 9.4% and reached US$47.8 billion in 2018, China's PLM market share increased at an even faster rate, from 4.6% in 2017 to 4.9% in 2018.
• World-class manufacturers require accurate, traceable product information to meet innovation, as well as efficiency requirements.
• The JWI Platform, developed in China, is based on a modern microservice architecture, runs on-premise and in the cloud, while supporting real-time app-based...

This free webinar will focus on the engineering side of Cummins’ digital transformation journey.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA 19 November 2019—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces an upcoming free webinar, “Digital Engineering at Cummins.” The webinar will take place on Thursday, December 5, 2019 at 11:00 a.m. (EST) and will last for one hour.

As part of CIMdata’s on-going research on digital transformation and PLM we are talking to leading industrial companies that are willing to share their insights and experiences on this important topic. Cummins, a global leader in power generation, has been quite...

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• Infor made an early commitment to multi-tenant cloud with their industry-focused CloudSuite strategy.
• With judicious acquisitions like GT-Nexus (now Infor Nexus) and Birst, and internal developments like Coleman, Infor is ready to move to third-generation “Intelligent CloudSuites.”
• Infor is innovating across the board, applying analytics and AI in their products, for implementation, and to support on-going use to help customers optimize business outcomes.

CIMdata had the pleasure of attending Inforum 2019 held in New Orleans, LA on 23-26 September. Infor held an Analyst Event on September 23rd leading into the main conference sessions through September...

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• IFS has seen significant growth in the last several years and plans to greatly exceed those results by 2021.
• The company has invested significantly to unify their global operations enabled, in part, by running IFS on IFS, and working to dramatically expand their global partner ecosystem.
• IFS continues to emphasize their portfolio beyond ERP.
• IFS is expanding investment in their platform to improve the user experience and to deliver these capabilities on-premise and in the cloud.

CIMdata had the pleasure to attend the IFS World Conference 2019 held from 8-10 October 2019 at the Hynes Convention...

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• Altair’s vision to provide systems modeling and simulation for cyber-physical systems is driving portfolio expansion beyond the traditional mechanical domain.
• Altair’s 2017 IPO provided capital investment to aggressively pursue expansion.
• SimSolid technology has the potential to significantly expand the usage of analysis to design engineers as well as to add value to simulation specialists.
• Polliwog, a leader in Korean Mechatronics solutions for LG and Samsung, is the latest acquisition by Altair supporting expansion into electronics/PCB design and analysis.
• The Datawatch acquisition in 2018 is now integrated with the Altair platform and rebranded as KnowledgeWorks to bring...

This free educational webinar will review the significant events that have happened in the PLM economy so far in 2019 and will help attendees make sense of them.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 7 November 2019—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces an upcoming free educational webinar, “The State of the PLM Economy.” The webinar will take place on Thursday, December 12, 2019 at 11:00 a.m. (EST) and will last for one hour.

If there is one constant in the “PLM Economy”, i.e., the collection of software and service providers that serve industrial companies in pursuing their PLM...

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• Global customers increasingly want products made just for them.
• Configure-to-Order (CTO) and Engineer-to-Order (ETO) strategies can help industrial companies deliver on this requirement.
• Many CTO and ETO companies struggle to ensure that quoted bids are actually profitable.
• Configure-Price-Quote (CPQ) solutions emerged to address this important problem.
• VariSales from Variantum, a global expert in product configuration and lifecycle management, builds on their strength in configuration management across the lifecycle from product definition through life.

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Manufacturing companies today face a complex, dynamic global market with competitors around every turn. Their customers increasingly demand products that are made just for...

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Key takeaways:

• Most transformation programs fail to deliver to promise due to limited understanding of what really needs to change.
• Without taking a holistic view, true and sustainable transformation is impossible.
• Sustainable transformation requires investment in process change, system deployment, and organizational adjustment.
• Sustainable transformation results in repeatable product and process innovation, which maximizes an organization’s return on investment.
• Customer satisfaction in today’s rapidly changing economy requires sustainable transformation.
• Executing True North Enterprise Calibration™ can enable sustainable transformation.

Today’s business journals and business school literature are filled with articles about transformation initiatives of different types. Most are talking about digital...